October 30, 2024 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The National Broadcasting Company presents the Adventures of Sam Spade Detective.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Sam se Detective Agency.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
These Wait, Heart, how was your vacation, Sam? Who said
it was a vacation.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I thought you said you were going skiing for weekends
with me.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
If it's always work. Do you know you can get
killed on skis?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
If you say so, Sam, Yes, most people just break their.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Most people picked some easy little slope, the cowards. But
I know a ski run up near a town called Lucerne.
That's sudden death.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
I know a ski run called a backbreaker. Really, how
does and when they named suicidrop FA.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Stopped trying to top me. You just can't. This was
the deadliest ski country ever seen. You just sit there
while I do a Christiania swing down Market Street. A
galender sprung up the stairs and a Taelmark right through
the door with a tail. I took out of the
deep freeze. Only last night the Chateau McCloud Caper n DC,
(01:04):
William Spear, Radio's outstanding Producer director of mystery and crime Drama,
brings you the greatest private detective of them all in
the Adventures of Sam Spade. I just wanted to prove
(01:25):
I could do it. I did a herring bone up
the stairs. I'll just that you've readed all those things
to him.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
You were never in the snow country.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
At all, so you don't believe me. Huh, Well, here,
doubting Iffie, I brought you proof, and don't tell me.
I rented this snowball.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Yes, a real snooball.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yes, I brought back two of them in a thermospox.
The other one I threw it out of policeman.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
It was a freezy.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I'm soaked with water and ice, Daniel.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I can't believe that you had trouble this weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Oh no, you cut that snowball and you'll find a
bloodstained bullet inside of it, and behind the bullet lines
a tail. Ready.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
I'm always ready saying yes.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Date filling into Sierra County Sheriff's Office was Sir in
California from Samuel Spade, San Francisco, license number one three seven,
five nine six, subject the Chateau McCloud Caper. Dear Sheriff,
you run a neat little convey up there at Sierra
and I hate to be snide, but when my train
steamed into the coal mountain near off You're a lovely
little village of Lucerne. I knew the chill of death
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was afoot. It had to be. The place was too
beautiful to last. The background hills were right out of
the Alps, the snow from Grandma Moses, and the rustic
buildings that snuggled under the mantle of white were just
too cute for words. It was abnormally perfect. Something had
to give. Well, VIDIONI a.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Man who got out the trains.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Are you from mcclos well, I'm supposed to find a
chateau mcclow.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Oh, what do you know?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I got the right man on the fruit drive.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Rube sent me down to pick you up. You could
pick me up almost time. That's a little fell off today,
Still we.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Gough mush musho.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
We glided out of the station munnery is, squeaking on snow,
the soft pad of hooves and the jangle of Mary Belle.
We had a bear skin lamp row. It was a
short bear, so we had to move close. Her cheeks
were apple red and her silk brown hair flowed in
a stinking bree Oh.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
It was a scene that.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Will forever be etched in my memory.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Little tells me you're an advertising game.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Well, I have placed a few ads in my day,
mostly help water.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Oh don't give me.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
He says, you're gonna put them a cloud canneries right
on top of the new campaign.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
You know you're supposed to have a.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Big name, just state letters, Sam space. Oh well, I'm
readA parts.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I'm supposed to be Rookie's girl friends. Of course, I
think it's only to make his white.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Mad fun up here. So this is my first trip.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Oh, then you're in.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
For a tree that is, Its abnormal psychology appeals to you.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
The Macoud guest register is always full of dynamite. For example,
this weekend reads Duckley Rufus Lecoud with half of the
money in the world, trying to get the.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Other hat good.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
His wife who has an elocatory to Creed missus. Yes,
carl Sir, boy friend Paul Endicott Higgelow type Charlie Allison
co worker and friend to Rufus. He's a food technician
or something dull.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
And then there's Chosa spenborg Ski instructor who comes.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Down like a wolf on the fold and like that.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Yes, well, I'll never remember all the names I'm in
the ad game. You know it's initials For me. I
call people well rl ts, NTG and rack.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
You know, well the names don't mean a thing. Just
remember this every thirty second.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Duck, I beg your pardon. The McCloud is I say.
It was eight miles out of town, and it seemed
we were there in no time at all. Rida Parker
hustle the alpine buck board and mayor into a stable
while I went up to the chat though, to meet
my employer Rufus McLeod. It was more of a Swiss chalet,
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you know, where the second floor is larger than the first,
and I guarantee that no one in Switzerland could have
afforded this chalet, even with the second floor the same
size as the first. I walked in upon rupas big
and red face standing in front of a fireplace. It
could easily have roasted a brace of oxen. Rump to rump.
Of course you're Sam Spade. I am mister maclown, and
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you came at an opportune time. There's no one around
to over hear our conversation. I suppose you wonder why
I hired a detective for a place like this, Well,
not especially I go where the people go and the money.
You'll be paid well for your time in trouble. I
must be quick. In essence, this is my situation. Earlier
this week I received an anonymous letter saying that if
I invited the guest list i'd planned for this weekend,
there might be serious trouble. Here's the letter. Keep it
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for yourself, so Los Angeles postmark. I see, well, we
might start by trade Sam is typewriter through an LA
detective agency. Every one of my charming guests is from
Los Angeles. One of them wrote it, if you ask me,
very likely. I wantn't know who wrote it if I can.
But more than that, I wonder what serious trouble The
writer is referring to the girl you sent to pick
me up, said you had a very volatile group of
people assembled. Perhaps they're high, strong individuals, but they're civilized.
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I'm sure their conflict would never get beyond a cutting
phrase or two, or perhaps a punch thrown here or there. Well,
then you really don't believe you will have any trouble? Yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
I thought it would be advisable to have a man
like yourself around yes, one who deals in trouble professionally.
Perhaps if things do get out of line, you can
help prepare the damages or even prevent things from occurring. Well,
I'll do my best, mister McLeod, but it's not easy
to look for something when you don't know what you're
looking for. Oh, here they come straight back from the
ski runs. I told them you were handling an advertising
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campaign for my canaries. Well, well they came stamping in,
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pulling off gloves on zipping pokers. And if it hadn't
been for the grown up dialogue, looking all over like
a group of carefree children, it was hard to believe
that the chill of death was also in an even day.
I couldn't keep my eyes off one of the particular
members of the group, Motsburg stea boots, Chinese vermiion, downhill
pants and a candy striped PoCA, which she now pulled
over her lovely head. The sweater she wore underneath was
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I'm sure designed for someone much smaller. A duction for
her is.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
The advertising man you've been telling me about, Ruth.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Oh, mister Samuel's fade my half wife, Cora half, Well,
how how are you doing? Red came sam, you can
always use another duport.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Crowd everybody shut in, producing the incomparable fabulous missus. Samuel,
say sir, I'll give.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Me a pass, sam Me pulling the cock, Me to poker.
Charlie Alison's sinball.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Charlie is the one who doesn't see I'll take snowshoes
any day.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
I can't get anywhere.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Snowshoe. You've heard perhaps the tortoise and the hair ruvers,
rings and.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Drinks, Tom and Jerry's top, dott He's coffee, God's.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
They were having hot buttered rum. The stuff's warming in
the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
We'll get it up, Get it up right away, car
the rest have you ready? I one, oh.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Oh, man shout till the rafters ra stands, and drake
a tall slants again. Let every loyal me man say, ohoy,
do he don't. They took up a song with Augusto
lifting imaginary drinks into the air, and it was all
very jolly. Were a party that was supposed to be
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fought with danger, This one certainly started out in just
the opposite direction. The drinks came and things got even merry, lunchlesserve,
and afterwards I slip into some outdoor gear and strapped
on some steam. Everybody scattered different directions. Rufus, mcclott and
I skis will place three miles away called a halfway cabin.
Between the chateau and the cabin was a small lake
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called Royal Lake. Completely close him over. Rufus stood in
front of the cabin firing a thirty thirty at a
target led up down in the woods to the east.
What do you see through the glasses? Fade through bullseyes
and nothing outside of the eight ring. That's right off hand,
shooting at this range and standing on the ski. Yeah,
I can do much better than that. What's this?
Speaker 5 (09:25):
See that silver tip on that big Norwegian fur over there?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah, I'll cut it off. Hey, look at it? Well
he came swooping out of no wherese fade. I swear
right now, I think you hit him? Who is it?
That's Paul Undercott? No, No, he's up good. That's coral
with him. You telling me nobody was supposed to be
skiing in that area. They're not well. Here he comes
and he looks plenty of man. Why do I care
about him? He just have to corral for the money.
I give it that song, right, till me. You're stupid.
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You weren't supposed to be skiing there under cut, and
it was an accident.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Yeah, that was.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
No accident, all right, all right, at that, that's Hugh
Keeth Potter. I'll throw in at you. I'd love falls
shop at hands.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Are you quit acting my shoulder?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Your boyfriend threw a sucker punch at me, Cora, and
even if he is my guest, there's a limit to hospitality.
I don't call one punch and even trade for a
thirty thirty bullet.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
You aren't hit, so I don't start crying.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Rupert died the feeling you wouldn't mind if you were hit.
You wouldn't mind at all, Paul, I've just decided I
don't like you without a mustache.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Well, well then on everybody's off the freefense, and you
knew where you stood, and it was chilly too, lady
in the day, we're all back the chateau again, and
Paul Endicot wove his delicate variation on his main theme,
I'll knock your block of I tell you, mister Andnnicott,
you have some delusion.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
I have no delusions, Tosure. I've seen the way you
look at Cora, the way you two are always trying
to lose me on the trail. Some people's ski faster
than other. Yeah, well let me tell you something.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
The next time you try to wolf this girl, it's
gonna be your lap and nobody's wolf.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
I'm a ski instructor.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
That is what I was at.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
Well, what you were hired for. A knock off the
extra curricular activity. I don't have to take this kind
of talk from you. Anything you'd like to do about it,
that's another.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Boy dam Yes, you want me to stop on, Missus McLeod.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
No, I want you to take me out of here.
Oh all right, all right, let's put on our skeeze
and get out of here.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Okay, here, I'll help you.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Oh no, thank you. Get sack you gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Well even so, I won't take a minute. Ready, Yes,
yeah we are. Now where are we heading, missus McLeod. Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:41):
I thought we might go out to the boat house.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
It's on the southern tip of Royal Lake.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Don't hmm A half and my name is Cora.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
I'm not really missus McLeod anymore.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
That's kind of rough on you. Isn't bringing your new
boyfriend around all of your ex husband's friends. Well, I
like it up here, Rufus likes to have me.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
They're not all against Paul, at least they weren't. But
he's on the detensive so much he's gonna make enemies
of all of them.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Yes, he's off to a rousing start. I say, do
you know.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Something, Sam, I don't care about Paul and the Cott really,
or Rupus McColl or Tosius and Bods or anybody.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
I just care about Cora macith.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Well, now that's a good, honest answer. You know, most
people wouldn't be that.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Frank, But damn, I haven't known you long.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Well, I like your style, style, I could care about you.
It broke my heart not to stop right there on
the trail and kiss her, because that's what she wanted
me to do. So that's why I didn't do it,
and I'll never turn down anything better. Well, next scene
a boat house, and when we got there it was
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not at all the way I thought. Food technician and
close friend of Rupus MacLeod was there working on something
that baffled me at first. So nice spoke mister Space.
That's what it is. Along As to Rufus, yeah, I
don't think I've ever seen one up close before I
take you for a ride. But this one needs a
lot of work before anybody could use it. I'm just fluttering.
What prompted you to come out here, Cora?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Because Paul and Toshia Spinbar got in a fight over me,
and I got tired of the whole thing, Sam, and
I went out with here.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Well glad you did. I was getting a bit lonesome,
you see, Sam, They always leave me in a cloud
of snow on I s keys and I just plod
along on snow shoes all by myself. Well maybe we
can go walking together sometimes. I used to be able
to shake a pretty good snow shoe Today. Tomorrow morning,
i'll show you the place, Sam.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
I think I'll stick around here and help Charlie with
the iceboats. Oh, unless you're crazy about iceboats. Why don't
you go back to the chateau.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
We'll be there in time for dinner.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Well, I don't need any engraved in the expectation. I
hope you catch your common cool. The trouble with that
girl was that she only wanted one man at a
time around here. Back at the chateau, there was no
one but the cook, the largery main part's Who's Tall.
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As separate time approached, Rufus came in, then Rita, then Cora,
then Allison and finally Tosure in that order. And the
order is important because you see nowhere in the list
is the name of Paul Endicott. He didn't come in
for supper nor for the next three hours. It was
dark by then, and Rupus MacLeod was worried about Endicott.
So we found out in a searching party. I was
alone when I found them. He was lying in the
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snow three hundred yards west of the halfway Kevin. There
was a thirty to thirty slug in period, and of
Paul Endicott. You are listening to the weekly adventure of
radio's most famous detective, Sam Spain. This Sunday, Carrie granted
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Betsy Drake star in the second of the new Mister
and Missus blending series. Over most of these NBC stations,
The delightful tribulations of Jim Blandings and his wife Muriel
as they built their famous dream house entertained millions as
a novel and then as a motion picture. And now
you can follow the further adventures of Mister and Missus
Blandings every Sunday on NBC and Sunday also means your
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weekly visit with the hilarious Harrises on The Phil Harris
Alice Fay Show. And now back to the Chateau McLoud
Gaper Tonight's adventure with Sam's fade. There were no stea
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marks near the body of Paul Endicott, just as own.
Somebody had drawn a beat on him in the dust
from some distance. I started to look for the rest
of the searching party, and then changed my mind. If
the body of Endicott wasn't found, the murderer might wonder
what happened to it, get worried and make a mistake.
So I picked him up, carried him to a small
cave I found, covered the entrance with snow, brushed over
the ste marks, and went back to the chateau. One
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they all showed up, discourage, sure you thought, we want
to keep looking? I know how you feel, cool going,
it's so dark. We'll try tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Oh, don't worry about him, can take care of him?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Oh can you take care of him? Says miss Parker.
If you've got law who said he got lost?
Speaker 5 (16:14):
I am assuming.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I think we're all assuming too much. I'm sure that
it's nothing to worry about. If I know Paul, he'll
show up tomorrow with some tall tale to tell. Or
do you think, mister Spadeen, what.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Does an advertising executive know?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Cora, your Manna's a sponsor might be listening.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Oh well, I'm sorry, Sam, I'm okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Frankly, I don't know what to think. But if I
were a detective, I had hazard a guess that Paul
met with foul play. Oh nonsense, sade nonsense. Come on, everybody,
let's have a drink and have some fun. Paul'll be back,
And even if he isn't, who really cares.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Scotch for me?
Speaker 1 (16:53):
And I guess nobody cares. Rufus was a little more
jolly than usual, and the drinks began to to spell.
The gloom was as if Paul and Thecott never had existed.
It began to get laid, and the bazaarre waked broke up.
Everybody went to bed, including me. I laid her fully dressed,
looking up at the bean's ceiling for an hour. About
then my doorknob turned and the door slid open and shut.
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Someone moved quietly to my bed as I was sliding
my thirty eight out of its holster.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Dam Me, Rita, are you awake?
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yeah? I wasn't even under the coverage. Minded.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Damn, I'm scared. I wish I could leave here. Paul's dead.
I know he is. He didn't mean anything to me
one way or the other, but I know he's dead.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Anything to back up your feeling, I guess not.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
It's it's just something i'm sure of.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Why'd you come to me?
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Because you're really a detective and I know it?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Oh me, Oh, now you.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Handle a case for my father once.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
You just don't remember me.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
All right, I'm a detective. Rup has hired me because
he expected trouble.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Damn.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
I'll tell you something about Paul. Yeah, Corey didn't really
like him. They were always fighting.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
She only cares about herself, So she said, tell me,
what kind of a car do this cool drift?
Speaker 4 (18:02):
It's a yellow convertible. But it's still in the garage.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I checked any other cars missing.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
No, No, they're all there. Oh and I found out
something else before supper. There was a gun missing for
Mucus's gun rack. It's back now.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Anything else.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
That's all I know, Sam, except that Paul's dead. I
know it. I wish I'd never come up here.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
After she left, I dressed for outdoors and climbed through
the bedroom window. It was still and quiet, and there
was a quarter moon. When I skid away from the chateau.
I wanted to look the land over myself before the
next day, when the clues, if any, were trampled into
the snow. When I passed the northern tip of Royal
Lake on the trail of a halfway cabin, I saw
a new set of ski tracks heading into the woods
where I'd found Endicott's body. I followed them and they
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went right to the cave where I'd hidden them, and
he was gone. I was standing there pondering this when
I thought I saw something move in the tree so
the west of me. I stood socked still. That was
a mistake. A bullet spun at a tree next to me,
and I shoved off as fast as I could. There
was no second shot. I circle around in the trees,
trying to catch side of someone. Nothing. I kept in
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the shadows and made for the halfway cabin. It was
dark and quiet, at least until I opened the door.
I tried, but he had the advantage of surprise and
some kind of a club. I ended up on the
floor with someone sitting on my chest.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
All right, I have your gun. You make one wrong move, Spade, and.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I got bullets in it and I hair trigger, so
be careful. We quick use a little light as you
see this Paul and cuts body. Yeah, why did you
find them, Totier? They're only putting a noose around your neck.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Sure, the very perceiving men miss the Spade.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
How do you figure I did it? I talk better
on my feet.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Just remember the game.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
If you didn't kill him, how else would you know
where the body?
Speaker 5 (19:44):
Because I know this country lecture back of my hand.
He had to be somewhere. You are the killer, mister Spade?
Me why do that?
Speaker 1 (19:51):
No, you found the body before anyone else could hit it,
then clumsily tried to your truck. Don't be silly. Why
would I come back? I murder?
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Always worry about his crime? Did you forget something or
something left undone? It's a natural.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
It sounds good, except it isn't true. You couldn't pend
it on me in amount of sundays, but somebody might
just tie it on to you.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
That's what you think? Do you know what I'm going
to do now.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
I wouldn't want to guess. The shops came pouring in
through the window and told your spend bog went down.
I saw the place of the place outside and was gone.
I kicked the lamp through the place in the darkness
and lay on the floor. Then I crawled over the
spenborg and took my gun back. Well, well that was
a surprise.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
It hurts quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Where'd you get it?
Speaker 5 (20:35):
Oh, somewhere in the back.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Let me see it's at the shoulder level. He won't
die anyway.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
I'm afraid. I'm afraid I misjudged you. Is the spaces
go after him, Go off to him and catch whoever
it was.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I can't leave you here as you care for myself.
Just leave me a gun for protection. No, I'll say,
go please while there's time. Or are you afraid? I
was when I gave him my gun and left outside.
There were many ski tracks for the fresh set. Led
left from the halfway cabin down. They went right to
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the edge of Royal Lake and then stopped. There were
no marks of ski poles on the ice, so I
followed the shoreline looking for some kind of a clue.
It wasn't until I reached the southern tip of Royal
Lake that my effort was rewarded. Leading up from the
ice were a set of foot frants, then a set
of ski marks. They led to the boat house. Inside
I found two interesting items, one a dismantled ice boat
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with fresh ice on the runners, two a pair of
skis with snow in the grooves. I made my way
along the beaten path back to the chateau circle at
once found interesting item number three and went in, What
were you doing up state? Did you hear the shots? So?
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I put on cool blow me out of a sound?
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Slee said, why did you know?
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I didn't find out about the first shot Missus McCleod
that was fired at me, But the next three were
fired on a man named Closure Spendboard. Oh no, how
did it happen to space? What's it all about? He
found Endicott's body in the woods. Dead y?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
I told you, then, I told you told him.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
What what do you know about it? Nothing?
Speaker 4 (22:09):
I just had the ceiling, that's all.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
You know.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Something I'll tell us them.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
I'll swept the rents right out of your head.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
I don't know anything anything at all I just had
a ceiling. We shot Tosia Spade and why I don't know.
I was standing with him in a halfway, Kevin. Somebody
shouts through the window. Didn't you see them? Don't you
know who it was? I was too busy ducking the look.
Just answer me one thing. Have any of you been out?
Of course? Not? No, I haven't. And mister Allison's in bed,
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of course they all lied. The cloud shirt was seined
with sweat. He'd been moving fast somewhere. The ski pants
sticking out from Underkoorra's robe were west and Rita Parker
was now dressed when she wasn't before. I was trying
to figure out something to say when Charlie Allison came
out from his bedroom, rulling asleep out of his eyes
and pulling a robe on. What's going on here? What's
the excitement about Sajoun Paul dead?
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Is somebody shot Tosia?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
No? Where is to in a halfway, Kevin? Well, let's
get into a doctor. I'll call one from tom Why
don't you.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Go up and get chos Y'a'll have a car reading
and we'll take him right into the Lucerne Hospital.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Wait a minute, what about the murderer who did the shooting.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Nobody's getting out of my sight.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
It had to be one of us.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Why, Coral, Oh, it wasn't just anybody. We're the only
ones left walking.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Why don't you ask Sam? He's the detective.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Detective, Yes, I had him because somebody sent me an
anonymous letter saying that be trouble. You knew there was
going to be trouble rufus. Somebody else knew? Then? Why
did you let people come up here? Why did you
wait a minute? Spade? What did you find out? If
you'll all wait here a minute, I'll tell you. When
I circled the chateau before I came in, i'd seen
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footprints leading to a window not mine. That meant somebody
else here was the back way in and out too.
I wanted to find out whose window it was, And
of course, when I was looking, I remember the apparently
dismantled ice boat and the fact that a set of
skis were in the boat house. It took me about
a minute to find the right room. But somebody knew it,
all right, Spade, stand where you Allison? You might be
a great food technician, but you're a lousy killing Yeah, well.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
At least he didn't get her.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
God in spade, All right, come on, Santa on you
sap Cora, huh you think you could get her by
killing somebody? Shut up with me, all I'm sorry for you,
sorry for anyone that ever knew. I'm sorry for myself.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
She loves me a fool.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
We found our killer and missus McCleod surely.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Yes, baby, Oh ruthless.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
It's been a long day.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
I need a drink.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
And that goes to show you how cold it can
get in the snow country period and the report, Why.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Would they do anything like that when he knew he
couldn't get away with.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
It because he was stupid. If people must have told
him a million times, if they told him once, crime
just doesn't pay. I'll go type that up, will you
go on? Scaper scamper. Three chimes mean good times on NBC.
(25:23):
Here's news of two important musical events This Saturday. Our
Toro Toscanini begins a new Saturday series of concerts with
the NBC Symphony, and for his premiere, the celebrated Maestro
Toscanini will present a special hour and a half performance
of Verity Is Requiem and beginning next Monday, you can
hear the first in a new series by the Boston
Pops Orchestra. The page that is what PS page? Why
(25:58):
should it need a PS?
Speaker 3 (25:59):
And you know that the report to borrow phrase and
you it's full.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
Of holes my phrase.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
I wish I'd never said it now. For instance, who
sent the note to Rupen Paul Endicott? He expected trouble answer,
IM so belligerent to everybody.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
All Right, I'm gonna come right out and maskew good.
Why did Alison chill him? Well?
Speaker 1 (26:18):
I thought it was rather obvious Cora was leaving Rufus
McLeod for Allison, But because Allison worked for McCloud until
Cora's divorce was final, they didn't want Rufus to know
about it, so they used Paul Endicott as a decoy
love affair. But that Endicott didn't want to get Cora up.
I'll bet that was it, sae Effie. I don't know
how you ever guessed Endicott saw another chance to pick
up a buck with a little blackmail.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
It was just a wild guest, yes, And of course
Alison did ski didn't he What.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Do you think how else could he get around so fast,
and he made such a.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Point about those snow shoes. Sam.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Yes, if I'd written the caper, I just covered that up.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
A little commie.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
I'm telling you, Sam, profession there you.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Certainly should not have. You know, there's only one thing
around here you're supposed to say. I know, make it fast.
I am good night sweet. The Adventures of Sam Spade
(27:21):
are produced, edited and directed by William Spears. Sam Spade
was played by Stephen Dunn. Loreen Tuttle is Effie. Stript
for tonight's adventure by John Michael Hayes, Musical scoring by
lud Gluskin, conducted by Robert Armbrwster. Join us again next week,
(27:44):
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The National Broadcasting Company presents the Adventures of Sam Spade Detective.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Sam se Detective Agency.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
These Wait, Heart, how was your vacation, Sam? Who said
it was a vacation.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I thought you said you were going skiing for weekends
with me.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
If it's always work. Do you know you can get
killed on skis?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
If you say so, Sam, Yes, most people just break their.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Most people picked some easy little slope, the cowards. But
I know a ski run up near a town called Lucerne.
That's sudden death.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
I know a ski run called a backbreaker. Really, how
does and when they named suicidrop FA.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Stopped trying to top me. You just can't. This was
the deadliest ski country ever seen. You just sit there
while I do a Christiania swing down Market Street. A
galender sprung up the stairs and a Taelmark right through
the door with a tail. I took out of the
deep freeze. Only last night the Chateau McCloud Caper n DC,
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William Spear, Radio's outstanding Producer director of mystery and crime Drama,
brings you the greatest private detective of them all in
the Adventures of Sam Spade. I just wanted to prove
(01:25):
I could do it. I did a herring bone up
the stairs. I'll just that you've readed all those things
to him.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
You were never in the snow country.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
At all, so you don't believe me. Huh, Well, here,
doubting Iffie, I brought you proof, and don't tell me.
I rented this snowball.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Yes, a real snooball.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yes, I brought back two of them in a thermospox.
The other one I threw it out of policeman.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
It was a freezy.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I'm soaked with water and ice, Daniel.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I can't believe that you had trouble this weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Oh no, you cut that snowball and you'll find a
bloodstained bullet inside of it, and behind the bullet lines
a tail. Ready.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
I'm always ready saying yes.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Date filling into Sierra County Sheriff's Office was Sir in
California from Samuel Spade, San Francisco, license number one three seven,
five nine six, subject the Chateau McCloud Caper. Dear Sheriff,
you run a neat little convey up there at Sierra
and I hate to be snide, but when my train
steamed into the coal mountain near off You're a lovely
little village of Lucerne. I knew the chill of death
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was afoot. It had to be. The place was too
beautiful to last. The background hills were right out of
the Alps, the snow from Grandma Moses, and the rustic
buildings that snuggled under the mantle of white were just
too cute for words. It was abnormally perfect. Something had
to give. Well, VIDIONI a.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Man who got out the trains.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Are you from mcclos well, I'm supposed to find a
chateau mcclow.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Oh, what do you know?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I got the right man on the fruit drive.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Rube sent me down to pick you up. You could
pick me up almost time. That's a little fell off today,
Still we.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Gough mush musho.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
We glided out of the station munnery is, squeaking on snow,
the soft pad of hooves and the jangle of Mary Belle.
We had a bear skin lamp row. It was a
short bear, so we had to move close. Her cheeks
were apple red and her silk brown hair flowed in
a stinking bree Oh.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
It was a scene that.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Will forever be etched in my memory.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Little tells me you're an advertising game.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Well, I have placed a few ads in my day,
mostly help water.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Oh don't give me.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
He says, you're gonna put them a cloud canneries right
on top of the new campaign.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
You know you're supposed to have a.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Big name, just state letters, Sam space. Oh well, I'm
readA parts.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I'm supposed to be Rookie's girl friends. Of course, I
think it's only to make his white.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Mad fun up here. So this is my first trip.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Oh, then you're in.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
For a tree that is, Its abnormal psychology appeals to you.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
The Macoud guest register is always full of dynamite. For example,
this weekend reads Duckley Rufus Lecoud with half of the
money in the world, trying to get the.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Other hat good.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
His wife who has an elocatory to Creed missus. Yes,
carl Sir, boy friend Paul Endicott Higgelow type Charlie Allison
co worker and friend to Rufus. He's a food technician
or something dull.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
And then there's Chosa spenborg Ski instructor who comes.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Down like a wolf on the fold and like that.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Yes, well, I'll never remember all the names I'm in
the ad game. You know it's initials For me. I
call people well rl ts, NTG and rack.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
You know, well the names don't mean a thing. Just
remember this every thirty second.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Duck, I beg your pardon. The McCloud is I say.
It was eight miles out of town, and it seemed
we were there in no time at all. Rida Parker
hustle the alpine buck board and mayor into a stable
while I went up to the chat though, to meet
my employer Rufus McLeod. It was more of a Swiss chalet,
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you know, where the second floor is larger than the first,
and I guarantee that no one in Switzerland could have
afforded this chalet, even with the second floor the same
size as the first. I walked in upon rupas big
and red face standing in front of a fireplace. It
could easily have roasted a brace of oxen. Rump to rump.
Of course you're Sam Spade. I am mister maclown, and
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you came at an opportune time. There's no one around
to over hear our conversation. I suppose you wonder why
I hired a detective for a place like this, Well,
not especially I go where the people go and the money.
You'll be paid well for your time in trouble. I
must be quick. In essence, this is my situation. Earlier
this week I received an anonymous letter saying that if
I invited the guest list i'd planned for this weekend,
there might be serious trouble. Here's the letter. Keep it
(05:55):
for yourself, so Los Angeles postmark. I see, well, we
might start by trade Sam is typewriter through an LA
detective agency. Every one of my charming guests is from
Los Angeles. One of them wrote it, if you ask me,
very likely. I wantn't know who wrote it if I can.
But more than that, I wonder what serious trouble The
writer is referring to the girl you sent to pick
me up, said you had a very volatile group of
people assembled. Perhaps they're high, strong individuals, but they're civilized.
(06:19):
I'm sure their conflict would never get beyond a cutting
phrase or two, or perhaps a punch thrown here or there. Well,
then you really don't believe you will have any trouble? Yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
I thought it would be advisable to have a man
like yourself around yes, one who deals in trouble professionally.
Perhaps if things do get out of line, you can
help prepare the damages or even prevent things from occurring. Well,
I'll do my best, mister McLeod, but it's not easy
to look for something when you don't know what you're
looking for. Oh, here they come straight back from the
ski runs. I told them you were handling an advertising
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campaign for my canaries. Well, well they came stamping in,
(07:08):
pulling off gloves on zipping pokers. And if it hadn't
been for the grown up dialogue, looking all over like
a group of carefree children, it was hard to believe
that the chill of death was also in an even day.
I couldn't keep my eyes off one of the particular
members of the group, Motsburg stea boots, Chinese vermiion, downhill
pants and a candy striped PoCA, which she now pulled
over her lovely head. The sweater she wore underneath was
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I'm sure designed for someone much smaller. A duction for
her is.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
The advertising man you've been telling me about, Ruth.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Oh, mister Samuel's fade my half wife, Cora half, Well,
how how are you doing? Red came sam, you can
always use another duport.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Crowd everybody shut in, producing the incomparable fabulous missus. Samuel,
say sir, I'll give.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Me a pass, sam Me pulling the cock, Me to poker.
Charlie Alison's sinball.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Charlie is the one who doesn't see I'll take snowshoes
any day.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
I can't get anywhere.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Snowshoe. You've heard perhaps the tortoise and the hair ruvers,
rings and.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Drinks, Tom and Jerry's top, dott He's coffee, God's.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
They were having hot buttered rum. The stuff's warming in
the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
We'll get it up, Get it up right away, car
the rest have you ready? I one, oh.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Oh, man shout till the rafters ra stands, and drake
a tall slants again. Let every loyal me man say, ohoy,
do he don't. They took up a song with Augusto
lifting imaginary drinks into the air, and it was all
very jolly. Were a party that was supposed to be
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fought with danger, This one certainly started out in just
the opposite direction. The drinks came and things got even merry, lunchlesserve,
and afterwards I slip into some outdoor gear and strapped
on some steam. Everybody scattered different directions. Rufus, mcclott and
I skis will place three miles away called a halfway cabin.
Between the chateau and the cabin was a small lake
(09:05):
called Royal Lake. Completely close him over. Rufus stood in
front of the cabin firing a thirty thirty at a
target led up down in the woods to the east.
What do you see through the glasses? Fade through bullseyes
and nothing outside of the eight ring. That's right off hand,
shooting at this range and standing on the ski. Yeah,
I can do much better than that. What's this?
Speaker 5 (09:25):
See that silver tip on that big Norwegian fur over there?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah, I'll cut it off. Hey, look at it? Well
he came swooping out of no wherese fade. I swear
right now, I think you hit him? Who is it?
That's Paul Undercott? No, No, he's up good. That's coral
with him. You telling me nobody was supposed to be
skiing in that area. They're not well. Here he comes
and he looks plenty of man. Why do I care
about him? He just have to corral for the money.
I give it that song, right, till me. You're stupid.
(09:49):
You weren't supposed to be skiing there under cut, and
it was an accident.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Yeah, that was.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
No accident, all right, all right, at that, that's Hugh
Keeth Potter. I'll throw in at you. I'd love falls
shop at hands.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Are you quit acting my shoulder?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Your boyfriend threw a sucker punch at me, Cora, and
even if he is my guest, there's a limit to hospitality.
I don't call one punch and even trade for a
thirty thirty bullet.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
You aren't hit, so I don't start crying.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Rupert died the feeling you wouldn't mind if you were hit.
You wouldn't mind at all, Paul, I've just decided I
don't like you without a mustache.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Well, well then on everybody's off the freefense, and you
knew where you stood, and it was chilly too, lady
in the day, we're all back the chateau again, and
Paul Endicot wove his delicate variation on his main theme,
I'll knock your block of I tell you, mister Andnnicott,
you have some delusion.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
I have no delusions, Tosure. I've seen the way you
look at Cora, the way you two are always trying
to lose me on the trail. Some people's ski faster
than other. Yeah, well let me tell you something.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
The next time you try to wolf this girl, it's
gonna be your lap and nobody's wolf.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
I'm a ski instructor.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
That is what I was at.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
Well, what you were hired for. A knock off the
extra curricular activity. I don't have to take this kind
of talk from you. Anything you'd like to do about it,
that's another.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Boy dam Yes, you want me to stop on, Missus McLeod.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
No, I want you to take me out of here.
Oh all right, all right, let's put on our skeeze
and get out of here.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Okay, here, I'll help you.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Oh no, thank you. Get sack you gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Well even so, I won't take a minute. Ready, Yes,
yeah we are. Now where are we heading, missus McLeod. Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:41):
I thought we might go out to the boat house.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
It's on the southern tip of Royal Lake.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Don't hmm A half and my name is Cora.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
I'm not really missus McLeod anymore.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
That's kind of rough on you. Isn't bringing your new
boyfriend around all of your ex husband's friends. Well, I
like it up here, Rufus likes to have me.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
They're not all against Paul, at least they weren't. But
he's on the detensive so much he's gonna make enemies
of all of them.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Yes, he's off to a rousing start. I say, do
you know.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Something, Sam, I don't care about Paul and the Cott really,
or Rupus McColl or Tosius and Bods or anybody.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
I just care about Cora macith.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Well, now that's a good, honest answer. You know, most
people wouldn't be that.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Frank, But damn, I haven't known you long.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Well, I like your style, style, I could care about you.
It broke my heart not to stop right there on
the trail and kiss her, because that's what she wanted
me to do. So that's why I didn't do it,
and I'll never turn down anything better. Well, next scene
a boat house, and when we got there it was
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not at all the way I thought. Food technician and
close friend of Rupus MacLeod was there working on something
that baffled me at first. So nice spoke mister Space.
That's what it is. Along As to Rufus, yeah, I
don't think I've ever seen one up close before I
take you for a ride. But this one needs a
lot of work before anybody could use it. I'm just fluttering.
What prompted you to come out here, Cora?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Because Paul and Toshia Spinbar got in a fight over me,
and I got tired of the whole thing, Sam, and
I went out with here.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Well glad you did. I was getting a bit lonesome,
you see, Sam, They always leave me in a cloud
of snow on I s keys and I just plod
along on snow shoes all by myself. Well maybe we
can go walking together sometimes. I used to be able
to shake a pretty good snow shoe Today. Tomorrow morning,
i'll show you the place, Sam.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
I think I'll stick around here and help Charlie with
the iceboats. Oh, unless you're crazy about iceboats. Why don't
you go back to the chateau.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
We'll be there in time for dinner.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Well, I don't need any engraved in the expectation. I
hope you catch your common cool. The trouble with that
girl was that she only wanted one man at a
time around here. Back at the chateau, there was no
one but the cook, the largery main part's Who's Tall.
(13:59):
As separate time approached, Rufus came in, then Rita, then Cora,
then Allison and finally Tosure in that order. And the
order is important because you see nowhere in the list
is the name of Paul Endicott. He didn't come in
for supper nor for the next three hours. It was
dark by then, and Rupus MacLeod was worried about Endicott.
So we found out in a searching party. I was
alone when I found them. He was lying in the
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snow three hundred yards west of the halfway Kevin. There
was a thirty to thirty slug in period, and of
Paul Endicott. You are listening to the weekly adventure of
radio's most famous detective, Sam Spain. This Sunday, Carrie granted
(14:54):
Betsy Drake star in the second of the new Mister
and Missus blending series. Over most of these NBC stations,
The delightful tribulations of Jim Blandings and his wife Muriel
as they built their famous dream house entertained millions as
a novel and then as a motion picture. And now
you can follow the further adventures of Mister and Missus
Blandings every Sunday on NBC and Sunday also means your
(15:16):
weekly visit with the hilarious Harrises on The Phil Harris
Alice Fay Show. And now back to the Chateau McLoud
Gaper Tonight's adventure with Sam's fade. There were no stea
(15:38):
marks near the body of Paul Endicott, just as own.
Somebody had drawn a beat on him in the dust
from some distance. I started to look for the rest
of the searching party, and then changed my mind. If
the body of Endicott wasn't found, the murderer might wonder
what happened to it, get worried and make a mistake.
So I picked him up, carried him to a small
cave I found, covered the entrance with snow, brushed over
the ste marks, and went back to the chateau. One
(16:00):
they all showed up, discourage, sure you thought, we want
to keep looking? I know how you feel, cool going,
it's so dark. We'll try tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Oh, don't worry about him, can take care of him?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Oh can you take care of him? Says miss Parker.
If you've got law who said he got lost?
Speaker 5 (16:14):
I am assuming.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I think we're all assuming too much. I'm sure that
it's nothing to worry about. If I know Paul, he'll
show up tomorrow with some tall tale to tell. Or
do you think, mister Spadeen, what.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Does an advertising executive know?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Cora, your Manna's a sponsor might be listening.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Oh well, I'm sorry, Sam, I'm okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Frankly, I don't know what to think. But if I
were a detective, I had hazard a guess that Paul
met with foul play. Oh nonsense, sade nonsense. Come on, everybody,
let's have a drink and have some fun. Paul'll be back,
And even if he isn't, who really cares.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Scotch for me?
Speaker 1 (16:53):
And I guess nobody cares. Rufus was a little more
jolly than usual, and the drinks began to to spell.
The gloom was as if Paul and Thecott never had existed.
It began to get laid, and the bazaarre waked broke up.
Everybody went to bed, including me. I laid her fully dressed,
looking up at the bean's ceiling for an hour. About
then my doorknob turned and the door slid open and shut.
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Someone moved quietly to my bed as I was sliding
my thirty eight out of its holster.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Dam Me, Rita, are you awake?
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yeah? I wasn't even under the coverage. Minded.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Damn, I'm scared. I wish I could leave here. Paul's dead.
I know he is. He didn't mean anything to me
one way or the other, but I know he's dead.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Anything to back up your feeling, I guess not.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
It's it's just something i'm sure of.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Why'd you come to me?
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Because you're really a detective and I know it?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Oh me, Oh, now you.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Handle a case for my father once.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
You just don't remember me.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
All right, I'm a detective. Rup has hired me because
he expected trouble.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Damn.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
I'll tell you something about Paul. Yeah, Corey didn't really
like him. They were always fighting.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
She only cares about herself, So she said, tell me,
what kind of a car do this cool drift?
Speaker 4 (18:02):
It's a yellow convertible. But it's still in the garage.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I checked any other cars missing.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
No, No, they're all there. Oh and I found out
something else before supper. There was a gun missing for
Mucus's gun rack. It's back now.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Anything else.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
That's all I know, Sam, except that Paul's dead. I
know it. I wish I'd never come up here.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
After she left, I dressed for outdoors and climbed through
the bedroom window. It was still and quiet, and there
was a quarter moon. When I skid away from the chateau.
I wanted to look the land over myself before the
next day, when the clues, if any, were trampled into
the snow. When I passed the northern tip of Royal
Lake on the trail of a halfway cabin, I saw
a new set of ski tracks heading into the woods
where I'd found Endicott's body. I followed them and they
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went right to the cave where I'd hidden them, and
he was gone. I was standing there pondering this when
I thought I saw something move in the tree so
the west of me. I stood socked still. That was
a mistake. A bullet spun at a tree next to me,
and I shoved off as fast as I could. There
was no second shot. I circle around in the trees,
trying to catch side of someone. Nothing. I kept in
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the shadows and made for the halfway cabin. It was
dark and quiet, at least until I opened the door.
I tried, but he had the advantage of surprise and
some kind of a club. I ended up on the
floor with someone sitting on my chest.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
All right, I have your gun. You make one wrong move, Spade, and.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I got bullets in it and I hair trigger, so
be careful. We quick use a little light as you
see this Paul and cuts body. Yeah, why did you
find them, Totier? They're only putting a noose around your neck.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Sure, the very perceiving men miss the Spade.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
How do you figure I did it? I talk better
on my feet.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Just remember the game.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
If you didn't kill him, how else would you know
where the body?
Speaker 5 (19:44):
Because I know this country lecture back of my hand.
He had to be somewhere. You are the killer, mister Spade?
Me why do that?
Speaker 1 (19:51):
No, you found the body before anyone else could hit it,
then clumsily tried to your truck. Don't be silly. Why
would I come back? I murder?
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Always worry about his crime? Did you forget something or
something left undone? It's a natural.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
It sounds good, except it isn't true. You couldn't pend
it on me in amount of sundays, but somebody might
just tie it on to you.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
That's what you think? Do you know what I'm going
to do now.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
I wouldn't want to guess. The shops came pouring in
through the window and told your spend bog went down.
I saw the place of the place outside and was gone.
I kicked the lamp through the place in the darkness
and lay on the floor. Then I crawled over the
spenborg and took my gun back. Well, well that was
a surprise.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
It hurts quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Where'd you get it?
Speaker 5 (20:35):
Oh, somewhere in the back.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Let me see it's at the shoulder level. He won't
die anyway.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
I'm afraid. I'm afraid I misjudged you. Is the spaces
go after him, Go off to him and catch whoever
it was.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I can't leave you here as you care for myself.
Just leave me a gun for protection. No, I'll say,
go please while there's time. Or are you afraid? I
was when I gave him my gun and left outside.
There were many ski tracks for the fresh set. Led
left from the halfway cabin down. They went right to
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the edge of Royal Lake and then stopped. There were
no marks of ski poles on the ice, so I
followed the shoreline looking for some kind of a clue.
It wasn't until I reached the southern tip of Royal
Lake that my effort was rewarded. Leading up from the
ice were a set of foot frants, then a set
of ski marks. They led to the boat house. Inside
I found two interesting items, one a dismantled ice boat
(21:28):
with fresh ice on the runners, two a pair of
skis with snow in the grooves. I made my way
along the beaten path back to the chateau circle at
once found interesting item number three and went in, What
were you doing up state? Did you hear the shots? So?
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I put on cool blow me out of a sound?
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Slee said, why did you know?
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I didn't find out about the first shot Missus McCleod
that was fired at me, But the next three were
fired on a man named Closure Spendboard. Oh no, how
did it happen to space? What's it all about? He
found Endicott's body in the woods. Dead y?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
I told you, then, I told you told him.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
What what do you know about it? Nothing?
Speaker 4 (22:09):
I just had the ceiling, that's all.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
You know.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Something I'll tell us them.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
I'll swept the rents right out of your head.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
I don't know anything anything at all I just had
a ceiling. We shot Tosia Spade and why I don't know.
I was standing with him in a halfway, Kevin. Somebody
shouts through the window. Didn't you see them? Don't you
know who it was? I was too busy ducking the look.
Just answer me one thing. Have any of you been out?
Of course? Not? No, I haven't. And mister Allison's in bed,
(22:36):
of course they all lied. The cloud shirt was seined
with sweat. He'd been moving fast somewhere. The ski pants
sticking out from Underkoorra's robe were west and Rita Parker
was now dressed when she wasn't before. I was trying
to figure out something to say when Charlie Allison came
out from his bedroom, rulling asleep out of his eyes
and pulling a robe on. What's going on here? What's
the excitement about Sajoun Paul dead?
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Is somebody shot Tosia?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
No? Where is to in a halfway, Kevin? Well, let's
get into a doctor. I'll call one from tom Why
don't you.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Go up and get chos Y'a'll have a car reading
and we'll take him right into the Lucerne Hospital.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Wait a minute, what about the murderer who did the shooting.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Nobody's getting out of my sight.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
It had to be one of us.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Why, Coral, Oh, it wasn't just anybody. We're the only
ones left walking.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Why don't you ask Sam? He's the detective.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Detective, Yes, I had him because somebody sent me an
anonymous letter saying that be trouble. You knew there was
going to be trouble rufus. Somebody else knew? Then? Why
did you let people come up here? Why did you
wait a minute? Spade? What did you find out? If
you'll all wait here a minute, I'll tell you. When
I circled the chateau before I came in, i'd seen
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footprints leading to a window not mine. That meant somebody
else here was the back way in and out too.
I wanted to find out whose window it was, And
of course, when I was looking, I remember the apparently
dismantled ice boat and the fact that a set of
skis were in the boat house. It took me about
a minute to find the right room. But somebody knew it,
all right, Spade, stand where you Allison? You might be
a great food technician, but you're a lousy killing Yeah, well.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
At least he didn't get her.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
God in spade, All right, come on, Santa on you
sap Cora, huh you think you could get her by
killing somebody? Shut up with me, all I'm sorry for you,
sorry for anyone that ever knew. I'm sorry for myself.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
She loves me a fool.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
We found our killer and missus McCleod surely.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Yes, baby, Oh ruthless.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
It's been a long day.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
I need a drink.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
And that goes to show you how cold it can
get in the snow country period and the report, Why.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Would they do anything like that when he knew he
couldn't get away with.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
It because he was stupid. If people must have told
him a million times, if they told him once, crime
just doesn't pay. I'll go type that up, will you
go on? Scaper scamper. Three chimes mean good times on NBC.
(25:23):
Here's news of two important musical events This Saturday. Our
Toro Toscanini begins a new Saturday series of concerts with
the NBC Symphony, and for his premiere, the celebrated Maestro
Toscanini will present a special hour and a half performance
of Verity Is Requiem and beginning next Monday, you can
hear the first in a new series by the Boston
Pops Orchestra. The page that is what PS page? Why
(25:58):
should it need a PS?
Speaker 3 (25:59):
And you know that the report to borrow phrase and
you it's full.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
Of holes my phrase.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
I wish I'd never said it now. For instance, who
sent the note to Rupen Paul Endicott? He expected trouble answer,
IM so belligerent to everybody.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
All Right, I'm gonna come right out and maskew good.
Why did Alison chill him? Well?
Speaker 1 (26:18):
I thought it was rather obvious Cora was leaving Rufus
McLeod for Allison, But because Allison worked for McCloud until
Cora's divorce was final, they didn't want Rufus to know
about it, so they used Paul Endicott as a decoy
love affair. But that Endicott didn't want to get Cora up.
I'll bet that was it, sae Effie. I don't know
how you ever guessed Endicott saw another chance to pick
up a buck with a little blackmail.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
It was just a wild guest, yes, And of course
Alison did ski didn't he What.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Do you think how else could he get around so fast,
and he made such a.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Point about those snow shoes. Sam.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Yes, if I'd written the caper, I just covered that up.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
A little commie.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
I'm telling you, Sam, profession there you.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Certainly should not have. You know, there's only one thing
around here you're supposed to say. I know, make it fast.
I am good night sweet. The Adventures of Sam Spade
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are produced, edited and directed by William Spears. Sam Spade
was played by Stephen Dunn. Loreen Tuttle is Effie. Stript
for tonight's adventure by John Michael Hayes, Musical scoring by
lud Gluskin, conducted by Robert Armbrwster. Join us again next week,
(27:44):
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